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# Re: Comments in .db files

- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:17:00 PST
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    GRAEME SMITH                         email: grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
    2536 138A ave Edmonton

    On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Seth I. Rich wrote:

    > Somewhere in the back of my head I recall reading that comments may be
    > inserted into verb code with /* markers */.  Unlike comments inserted as
    > strings, these will be entirely ignored and not even saved in the
    > database.  Is it kosher to insert such comments into the .db file
    > directly?  Will they be ignored?  In what parts of the file, if any?
    >
    > Seth
    >
    > --
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    > Seth I. Rich - sir@po.cwru.edu - http://corporate.hygnet.com/~seth/
    >                                  There is nothing more precious than
    > Rabbits on walls, no problem.    a tear of true repentance.
    >
    Doesn't seem likely.... the first time the computer updated the file
    they would be gone. It doesn't seem too practical. You could always
    put the /* markers inside the quotes if you wanted them to stay beyond
    the first checkpoint rewrite.

    I put the comments into the verb definitions myself.

    The other alternative is one like that is used in some Forth systems
    where the comments go into a "Shadow" property for the verb.

    				GREY

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- Comments in .db files

- From: sir@po.cwru.edu (Seth I. Rich)

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